Real photographers don't need new gears!

**Mike Castles** · 9-Mar-2009, 17:55

Great story to go with a great photograph. I bet he would walk those miles again just from the look on his face.

**Frank Petronio** · 9-Mar-2009, 18:13

Looks like a Hasselblad to me.

**Hugo Zhang** · 9-Mar-2009, 18:51

A few pictures...

http://www.xmnn.cn/dzbk/xmrb/2007060...606_224688.htm

http://www.people.com.cn/GB/paper40/10719/974429.html

He has been through a lot. Encounters with wild animals and robbers. He would climb up a tree to escape a pack of wolves and wait and shiver up there in the cold of the night till some local hunters came to his rescue. He still can climb up a tree today. One time he broke the back window of his house to run into the mountains with his camera to escape from the robbers. When he was bitten by snakes, he would jump into a stream and squeeze the poisoned blood into the water. To escape wasps, he would cover himself up with clothes with only two tiny holes for his eyes. Wild hogs don't like smoke, so he would smoke when he felt those animals were nearby. He would arrive at a village and stay for a few weeks and take everybody's pictures. Big event for many villages and many grandmas would wait for his return year after year.